On Sunday 20 November 2005 21:18, Leo Mauler wrote:
This brings up another point: some people have been posting to the list using some form of structured formatting language such as HTML. I'm speaking of the lines on the side of the posting instead of > characters.
.quote { border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 1ex; } So and so said, <div class="quote">I like HTML</div>
... makes sense to me. Too bad KMail doesn't support it. HTML email is better in general even without formatting, because it supports automatic line wrapping. ;)
These posts are darned difficult to format for someone else to read them,
If anything, they should be easier... Nothing makes > better than a line.
at least in my webmail, because instead of converting the lines into > characters, the postingEnds up looking like this.And sticking sentences right next to each other.And doing it over and over again.Even if a new paragraph has been started.
Then that's a bug in your webmail or browser. The lines shouldn't *be* converted, they should be displayed as usual. If the mail app is replying in plain text, then it should use the plain text version of the original message for the reply.
Again, your E-mail application/webmail might force you to do so, but if we're talking clarity here its not very easy to reply to someone with HTML (or whatever that is) in their E-mail.
Simple rule: in a HTML reply, stick the original HTML within a <div>; for the plain text reply, apply the usual reply filters to the plain text source message.